Oxford Valuation Partners is a leading financial advisory firm, specializing in Private Company Valuation, Mergers & Acquisitions, and 409a Reports. OVP works with startups and venture capital firms to provide critical business services to emerging firms raising capital, allocating options, and heading towards IPO or sale.

OVP already provides its clients with top-notch professional services. Now, we’re bringing those services into the online arena, so our clients can collaborate better with our expert staff to manage and control key financial aspects of their corporations.

The world of funding, financing, and compliance is complex and challenging, and underpins much of the vibrancy in the tech sector today. This position is a good opportunity to gain exposure to this space, learn how it all works, and advance the state of the art in financial applications.

Our application is being developed as an RoR app using Postgres.

As a developer, you should be a strong problem solver with a focus on simplicity, performance, and security. It is your job, literally, to make sure that our clients’ finances are calculated correctly and that their information is held securely. At the same time, we expect our tools to be on par with the best consumer-oriented websites in terms of utility, interface, and performance. A solid core will enable us to do that well.

This role initially entails implementing features related to equity modeling and management and user messaging.Over time, we expect you to architecting and implement components all across the application.

Our application is Ruby on Rails using PostgresQL as the data store. In keeping with modern programming standards, we’re working towards an API-first, continuously integrated system. As the lead backenddeveloper for the project, you have a key role in making the application shine, and we expect you to be fluent with modern patterns and expectations.

You’ll also be responsible for leading API integrations with complementary tools and for designing and implementing our own APIs.

The team is distributed so strong communication skills and openness to collaboration are important as well. We use Git and Slack as our primary collaboration tools.

This role is a full-time contract role. It may evolve into a staff position based on personal performance and the success of the application.